Jamie Takkiruq, Jerry Puglik and the Kitikmeot drummers drum dance for delegates of the Inuugatta Language Conference, which wrapped up in Iqaluit Feb. 27. The conference was hosted in part by Nunavut's Languages Commissioner Sandra Inutiq and the territory's minister of languages George Kuksuk, in collaboration with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and the Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit. Inuugatta brought together over 70 participants from around Nunavut, other areas of the circumpolar world, and Canada. The GN will produce a report from the conference with points on how to further revitalize and strengthen the use of Inuktut. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GN)

NEWS March 03, 2015 - 12:50 pm

MLA takes Nunavut to task for opposing national MMIW inquiry

“We seem to be abandoning our fellow aboriginal people”

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

The Nunavut government’s opposition to a national inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women is “unfortunate,” Tununiq MLA Joe Enook said March 2 in the legislative assembly.

“We seem to be abandoning our fellow aboriginal people because we don’t have many missing women in Nunavut. It is an...

Nunavut MLA demands elders’ care facility for Rankin Inlet

Health department set to assess need for facility in Rankin Inlet

PETER VARGA

Nunavut may have the smallest proportion of seniors in the country but Alexander Sammurtok, the MLA for Rankin Inlet South, wants to be sure the territory is ready to accommodate the territory’s growing elderly population with a full-service 24-hour facility.

Admin hiccups jeopardize public internet sites in Nunavut

Education minister supports program, but doesn't promise money

THOMAS ROHNER

With money running out, a vanished Government of Nunavut administrator and a lot of confusion over what constitutes “good standing” for a board of directors, free, public internet access across Nunavut might be in jeopardy.

Kivalliq hunters’ org opposes Nunavut’s first uranium project

Weekend blizzard delays Kiggavik final hearing by a day and a half

THOMAS ROHNER

Hunters’ organizations in the Kivalliq are banding together to oppose the Kiggavik uranium project, days before a blizzard-delayed final hearing on the project is set to start in Baker Lake on the afternoon of March 3.

A Feb. 26 resolution from the Kivalliq Wildlife Board — created under the...

National roundtable to focus on violence prevention campaign

Inuit leaders say campaign should address violence against Indigenous women at home

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Governments and Indigenous groups from across the country say they’re committed to joining efforts to end violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada, following the first ever national roundtable on the issue.

Alcohol-fueled crime falls a bit in Kuujjuaq, after two years of retail wine, beer

But alcohol sales still a heated issue in Nunavik’s largest community

SARAH ROGERS

KUUJJUAQ — The empty Budweiser cans scattered around Kuujjuaq provide a visual reminder that this Nunavik community remains the only one in this region — or in the eastern Arctic for that matter — where you can buy beer and wine over the counter.

In 1984 when she was eight years old, Bonnie Ammaaq, above, moved to an outpost camp on North Baffin. She lived there for 11 years with her parents and two younger siblings and the family fed themselves mostly with food from the land. They now live in Igloolik but their connection to the land remains fierce. "Nowhere Land," a National Film Board of Canada film, tells Ammaaq's story of North Baffin including, "the sadness, anger and conflict she has felt witnessing, from afar, its transformation into the world's largest open pit iron mine." Written by Bonnie Ammaq and Alicia Smith and produced by Alicia Smith in partnership with the Nunavut Film Development Corporation, the film will screen at Iqaluit's Astro Theatre on March 4 at 7 p.m. (PHOTO COURTESY NFB)